Re:Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box
by yellow_postit on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @05:56PM
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I wish there was an option to bunch up the orders more to reduce packaging at a cost of greater shipping times or even some additional fees (could pitch those as carbon credits to reduce waste).
This was something Jet had encouraged really well.
Amazon Prime lets you choose a "Prime Day" and when you place an order, you can choose to have it be delivered on that day of the week.
Not a perfect solution since sometimes orders come from different warehouses so are still packaged separately, but it's a pretty good way to combine orders into less packaging.
A recent order though had two things of eye liner in it aaaaand... of course they ended up in their own very oversized box. (I did go back and make sure that part was also fulfilled by Amazon. My guess is that someone just thought it would be funny to ship a package that is 99.5% empty :D)